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A workshop on climate science, developed at the 91探花 and delivered for five years to scientists in this region, will become the framework for a new national workshop for early-career tribal members from across the country. The program, announced in September by the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of Idaho, will be held for the first time in June 2016 at the campus in McCall, Idaho. It will involve scientists and educators from across the U.S. who…

The 91探花’s Department of Construction Management and Skanska, one of the world’s leading construction and development firms, have partnered to offer a new certificate for Building Information Modeling. The new program was created to fill a current gap in the field of people trained to use data-rich virtual-reality modeling tools in building design. The 11-week program began Sept. 29 and is open to 91探花students and industry professionals locally and nationwide through online streaming. During the course, students…

As an academic, Cheryl Richey was empirical and analytical, dogged in her insistence on backing up practice with evidence. So it鈥檚 perhaps not surprising that as an artist, the 91探花 professor emeritus of social work lets her spontaneous, experimental side loose. 鈥淚 think that absence of control is what I needed, because my academic self was very disciplined, very controlled,鈥� said Richey, who retired from the 91探花in 2003. Richey, who now spends much of her time as…

While the rest of campus celebrates the beginning of autumn quarter and welcomes a record freshman class, the Office of Admissions is already focused on recruiting and admitting the class of 2016. The freshman application for Fall 2016 opens today, and the deadline is Dec. 1. Applicants will be notified March 15 through 31, 2016. On Nov. 3, the Office of Admissions hosts Husky Hopefuls, an evening devoted to college admission and financial aid. This event is offered only to…

Two 91探花 scientists are featured in a new series 鈥� created by the National Science Foundation, NBC Learn and The Weather Channel 鈥� that focuses on natural hazards. Each of the short videos features an NSF-supported scientist who studies one of ten types of natural disasters. Two of them are from the UW’s Department of Earth & Space Sciences. David Montgomery, a 91探花professor of Earth and space sciences, studies past and present landslides to try to understand…

In the age of “smart” technology, the devices we use 颅鈥� from phones that enable banking and shopping to personal robots and driverless cars 鈥� will leave a trail sharing who we are, where we go and what we consume. Over the next month, the 91探花 College of Engineering’s fall lecture series will feature faculty researchers balancing technological advances with the myriad hazards, seen and unseen, of our ever-more-connected world. The lectures are free and open to the…

Each year, around 1,100 undergraduate students around the United States die by suicide; in the last six years alone, 18 91探花 students have taken their own lives. 鈥淭hat number sounds horrific, and it is, but it鈥檚 also squarely in line with the national average,鈥� said Lauren Davis, director of school and campus programs at聽Forefront: Innovations in Suicide Prevention, an interdisciplinary organization based in the 91探花鈥檚聽School of Social Work. That reality prompted Forefront to organize the first…

Syria’s drawn-out civil war has displaced more than 10 million people since 2011 and the flood of refugees from the area has drawn the concerned attention of the world. The 91探花 Jackson School of International Studies will hold a free, public forum at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 6, in Room 101 of Thomson Hall. The forum is titled “Focus on Syria: A Humanitarian Crisis,” and will be moderated by Resat Kasaba, Stanley D. Golub Chair of International Studies…

A 91探花 tool that monitors the amount of ice in Arctic waters calculated that we remain on track for a gradual disappearance of the Arctic ice cap in summer. “Last year, when the ice had bounced back by some percentage both in extent and in volume, there was a bit of talk about whether that constituted a recovery,” said Axel Schweiger, a sea ice scientist with the 91探花Applied Physics Laboratory. “I think it’s significant that we’re back…

In a sense, early returns from the 2016 election are already in: Civility is losing to vitriol in a landslide. But two former U.S. senators who each served as Senate majority leaders 鈥� Republican Trent Lott of Mississippi and Democrat Tom Daschle of South Dakota 鈥� have been promoting a plan to restore civility to governing. On September 24, the two will present some of these ideas to an audience of state legislators, university representatives, business leaders and members of…

The 91探花 Center for Human Rights will hold a daylong conference Oct. 5 at the 91探花School of Law, underscoring a crucial international theme even with its title: “Access to Information as a Human Right.” The conference springs from the center’s partnerships with communities and organizations struggling for truth and accountability in postwar El Salvador. Panels will include conversations with international experts in human rights, access to information, and international law; and with Salvadoran human rights defenders and…

The share of Washingtonians living in poverty dropped from 14.1 percent to 13.2 percent between 2013 and 2014, according to new U.S. Census Bureau data released Thursday. Washington was one of 12 states with significant declines in their poverty rates during that period. Among the remaining states, the vast majority saw no change in their poverty rates or the number of people in living in poverty. “We are finally seeing a drop in the poverty rate six years after the…

The 91探花 and Oregon State University have won a $4.5 million, five-year grant from the National Science Foundation to advance nanoscale science, engineering and technology research in the Pacific Northwest and support a new network of user sites across the country. The regional partnership was selected as one of 16 sites for a new National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI) program. That network is designed to give researchers from academia, small and large companies and other institutions open access…